Chapter One Hundred and Nine: The King of Chu Escapes
Changsun Chong was also a little surprised when he heard the words of the King of Shu, and his pace of wanting to leave gradually slowed down, because in his impression, the King of Shu had always been a foolish prince, but at this time his idea of messing around seemed to be a bit big.
Eldest Sun Chong pretended to look at the King of Shu with doubtful eyes, "What do you think?" Tell me about it! ”
The King of Shu saw that Changsun Chong seemed to be interested in what he said, and reorganized his voice before saying: "Li Chengqian, they will definitely be injured if they go to fight the Turks, and then we will attack him behind our backs, and then blame the Turks or other vassal countries for the crime of sneak attack, what do you say!" ”
Changsun Chong nodded, and said disappreciatively: "Where did you come from, if you want to rely on the people left by King Wu, it is impossible!" ”
Changsun Chong continued: "On the one hand, they haven't fully recognized you, and I don't know that there are many people left by King Wu, they should be waiting and watching, only if you are strong enough, they will show up!" ”
The King of Shu nodded, looked at the eldest grandson and said, "Brother-in-law, do you have anyone under your hands who can be used?" Or we can go to King Wei, he should be interested in this idea! ”
Changsun Chong remembered the appearance of King Wei and smiled: "Last time, the cooperation between King Wei and King Wu didn't seem to be particularly pleasant, the three princes never played Li Chengqian, and even King Wu was killed silently, do you think King Wei will cooperate with you this time?" ”
The King of Shu also smiled, pointed in the direction of the distance and said, "As long as Li Chengqian sits in the East Palace for a day, the King of Wei will cooperate with us, and I am still very confident in this!" ”
The eldest grandson Chong nodded and said to the King of Shu: "This matter will be handed over to you, it is inconvenient for me to come forward to hand over to the King of Wei, and don't mention my name when I am with the King of Wei, remember!" ”
The king of Shu said yes, and then continued: "How many people can you use over there!" I think this assassination must be carried out vigorously, and it is better that there is no one left! ”
Eldest Sun Chong thought for a while and said, "After that, I will ask Commander Wu to contact my people, and I don't know how many people can use it now, because many people have been transferred to the front line, but is there anyone under your command who can be used?" ”
The King of Shu pursed his lips, "I still have a lot of people in Yizhou, my brother has spread the bureau in Chang'an over the years, and Jingzhou in Yizhou has always been run by me, these people are not registered soldiers, and they are very safe!" ”
Changsun Chong thought to himself that the two brothers of the king of Shu and the king of Wu had been planning for a long time, but they didn't know if this sudden Turkic attack had anything to do with them, if the Turks also had something to do with them, then he had to beware of them!
The King of Shu and the eldest grandson Chong left the meeting place, the two of them were wary of each other, the King of Shu is naturally not a fool, he will not completely believe in a person for no reason, and it is such a big thing as seizing the heir, how much strength the eldest grandson rushed out this time is how much the King of Shu trusts him in the future.
Changsun Chong is even simpler, he never thought of helping the King of Shu to seize the heir, although he didn't know that there were Turks involved in the previous robbery incident, but his subordinates found out that the King of Chu had brought some strange merchants of the vassal kingdom into the city, and these people suddenly disappeared, and they didn't know what they did. Most likely, it is the Turkic people who assassinated King Wu in legend.
In the night, the figure of Changsun Chong disappeared into the darkness, and he seemed to be asking himself whether King Wu was dead or not.
The King of Chu, who was driven back to the station, was also alive at this time, although his body was guarded by the people sent by his father, but in such a troubled world, it seemed normal for a few guards to die violently.
These days, the king of Chu is fed up with the discrimination of these subordinates, they look at themselves like prisoners, eating, sleeping, and even going to the toilet have to be stared at, this feeling makes the king of Chu feel uncomfortable.
But fortunately, today the King of Chu found the people he had brought to Chang'an before, and at this time they had already marked the roadside in advance, indicating that they had found the King of Chu.
The king of Chu couldn't wait for a moment, and when night fell, the king of Chu returned to the carriage and lay down, and then sent a signal for these people to do it.
The soldiers outside were also drowsy, it turned out that the subordinates of the king of Chu had poisoned the water in advance, and after getting the signal of the king of Chu, these people immediately took action and put the steel knife on the soldiers' necks.
In order not to let the soldiers notice that the water was poisonous, they gave a small dose, so these soldiers only felt sleepy, not without the strength to fight back, but they could not stand these people who had prepared in advance and still had a numerical advantage, and soon there was no sound outside the carriage.
King Chu gently opened the curtain, saw the familiar subordinates, and laughed: "You guys are finally here, get up quickly and tell me what happened!" ”
Under the leadership of the leader, the rest of the brothers also obediently knelt on one knee and waited for the appearance of the king of Chu, and when they heard the voice of the king of Chu, everyone got up, and the leader also helped the king of Chu to get off the carriage, and walked to the fire on the side before saying: "The rest of the people go to dispose of the corpse, I will say to His Royal Highness the King of Chu!" ”
The rest of the brothers obeyed the order and honestly packed up the corpse. The leader waited beside the king of Chu, and the king of Chu said, "Commander Wang, tell me what happened!" ”
Commander Wang was also puzzled, looking at the King of Chu for a long time and couldn't say why, the King of Chu was a little angry when he saw his appearance and said, "What's the matter?" Is there anything you can't tell me? ”
Commander Wang shook his head, and didn't know what to say, before he said, "His Royal Highness the King of Chu, what do you want to know!" Let's just ask, you let me tell me what happened, and I don't know where to start! ”
The King of Chu thought for a while and said, "Do you know what happened to the assassination of the crown prince and the king of Wu?" What about Ashina's group? Why is it gone! ”
Commander Wang looked at the King of Chu and replied honestly: "The assassination of the crown prince was done by us and King Wu's people, we don't know what the situation is about the assassination of King Wu, and Ashina's group of people appeared once during the day on the day of the robbery, and they never appeared again, and I don't know what they were going to do!" ”
The King of Chu was shocked, looked at the king and said: "Who asked you to assassinate the prince, if I want you to assassinate the prince, then why do I have to take Ashina's group of people into the city, you won't leave any handles, if my father finds out that you did it, the hat of King Wu's murder will also be on my head!" ”
Commander Wang was also shocked when he heard King Chu's words, and said with some horror: "It was Commander Wu under King Wu who brought your personal letter from King Chu to let us act together, it was the end of the curfew time, and I thought that it was inconvenient for His Royal Highness to meet with us, so I followed Commander Wu to assassinate His Royal Highness the Prince!" But rest assured, Your Highness, none of us have been caught, and we have all escaped unharmed! ”
The king of Chu only felt that it was thrilling, if these people of his own were caught, he would definitely not be able to tell, and looked at the king and said, "What about the secret letter?" Show me! ”
Commander Wang only felt that his mouth was dry, he also realized that something was wrong at this time, and said to the King of Chu helplessly: "Your Highness, the secret letter was thrown into the fire by Commander Wu after I confirmed it again and again, he said that he couldn't leave any clues, and the last general thought it was very reasonable at the time, but now that I think about it, I should be afraid that I will carefully observe and find loopholes!" ”
The King of Chu still trusted his subordinates very much, and when he heard him say this, he nodded helplessly, "So it was King Wu's plan to assassinate Li Chengqian in the morning?" What did he want to do? I was resting in the inn at the time, didn't you want to grab me? ”
Commander Wang naturally didn't dare to talk at this time, and waited silently on the side, King Chu sighed and said helplessly: "This time we are taking a road of no return!" ”
Commander Wang nodded, and said with some doubts: "Your Highness, why did you say that this Turkic suddenly attacked my Tang border, and even if it is in Yizhou, there is the chassis of the Wu Wang brothers, will there be any connection between this!" ”
The king of Chu shook his head, looked at the king and said in a low voice: "I have not been in vain these days in Dali Temple, I heard that Li Junxian found a letter in the room where King Wu was killed, and the letter said that King Wu promised to pay tribute to the Turks if he could ascend the throne in the future, year after year. My father was angry, but then I didn't know what happened, but my father didn't pursue the matter! ”
Commander Wang nodded, he was still very concerned about this matter, but he also said with doubts: "Your Highness, why do you say that the Turks are paying tribute to the border this time?" Will it have anything to do with King Wu! ”
The King of Chu sighed, he was not very clear about this matter, shook his head and said: "The Turkic general Ashina who contacted us is actually the third prince of the Turks, although I know that he has his own ideas about cooperating with us, but I never thought that they would do it so ruthlessly, assassinate the prince and start a border war, they are going to fight completely!" ”
Commander Wang knew that this matter was a sore spot for his own prince, and he didn't dare to say anything, but he still said: "I don't know what happened on Ashina's side, but after His Highness entered the palace, the last general has been following those people in Wu Wangfu, and they seem to have some ulterior secrets!" ”
The king of Chu was interested, looked at the king and said, "Tell me quickly, have you found anything!" ”
Commander Wang nodded and whispered: "The last general found out that Commander Wu of King Wu's Mansion had been in and out of Changsun Mansion several times, and King Shu didn't know when he returned to Chang'an, so he should be guarding the spirit of King Wu's Mansion these days!" ”
The King of Chu was stunned for a moment, and said in a daze: "King Wu and the eldest grandson's family? They are notoriously uneasy to deal with, and the King of Shu, how could he appear in Chang'an, and it just so happened that the King of Wu was assassinated, what are these people doing! ”
Commander Wang said that he didn't know, shook his head and retreated to the side to help clean up, leaving the king of Chu alone to think about these things.